The Secret of Tapas by Prof Seshadiri

 

Introduction

THE SECRET OF TAPAS

by Prof. Seshadiri

Amarakavi's revelation overreaches the logic of all the systems of Philosophy and all the disciplines of yoga.  The summits touched by it transcend the lofty peaks of Vedanta and disclose regions beyond Samadhi of yoga.  It is not just a Sadhana but also a consummation of all Sadhanas and as such, it would admit no limitation in its operation in any dimension in the temporal as in the eternal.  In the light of such a revelation the magnificent task of man, this in essence is the consummation of himself with the divine and as the divine, does not stop with any personal aim of self-realisation but in participation of a divinely ordered cosmic plan though ascent and descent into the infinite forms of the transcendental and the temporal.  When man "Becomes God" - to choose a simple mode of expression - he must share with God himself all the delights of the divine expression and manifestation, all the sublimities of reincarnation. This would provide the keynote of a comprehensive grasp of Amarakavi's message whose stress is not merely theoretical or practical but fuses both. An Introduction to this opening section:  The opening pages serve to create an active interest with the reader as to where India stood in the past ages compared to the present.  Nature is the same at all times and so too our living order on earth.

 There is no book today to suggest the phenomenal existence in its entirety and to present it in self-experience.  Therein is the lack of the times compared to our great tradition. The modern thinkers is no where nearer its goal and equally so the torch bearers of Hindu Wisdom today resting purely on academicals back ground of it all and not in them the relative experience in the most sublime existence.  It is unfortunate that it is not in our tradition to disclose verbatim the phenomena of our being and to suggest of what we are truly and fully in our being on earth.  The days passed by and no one could reach its heights today in Tapas as to rediscover it all in oneself. 

 This book came to be in its vacuum. The gamut of these writings presents to view the inter'relation of the phenomenal and its eternal source with nature in ceaseless march all through day life.  All its course lay off in mid dream, where the universe ends in mental spirits.  From then on is Prakrti Layam of every thing that there is in the phenomenal.  This book traces all that course even and these frontal pages connote the experience of the eternal in and through that summit of human experience.  It is life opening to the "Dream State" even amidst day spirits or Jagrat.  That this is realized is "Thuriya Atheetham", the end value of Tapas.